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FM 11-23
c. Provide organizational maintenance of or- and for furnishing rigger personnel for antenna
ganic arms, electronic equipment, vehicles, and installation.
power generators.
b. Appropriate TOE 11-500 field cable and
d. Provide direct support level maintenance radio relay (multichannel radio) augmentation
for electronic equipment.
teams are required if extension circuits to outlying
units must be provided by the heavy tropo
e. Provide 24-hour mess service. company.
f. Install and operate a technical control cen- c. Aviation support may be required to supply
ter.
and maintain tropo terminals operating in isolated
or underdeveloped areas.
14-4. Technical Capabilities d. Frequency allocation service by the signal
a. TOE Levels 1 and 2. When the heavy tropo element of the supported headquarters is recompany
is at TOE strength levels 1 and 2 (AR quired.
220-1 and AR 135-8), it provides 8 tropo terminals.
Each terminal includes both radio fre- 14-6. Mobility and Displacement
quency and multiplex equipment. Two terminals The heavy tropo company operates semifixed
provide a communications link and the terminals communications facilities and frequent displacemay
be separated by as much as 400 kilometers. ment of the company or its elements is unlikely.
The communications link may provide either 60 The company is tactical, however, and 65 percent
voice channels or 59 voice channels and 16 full- of the TOE authorized personnel and equipment
duplex teletypewriter channels. The company can be moved at one time with organic vehicles
also provides technical control facilities for con- (AR 310-31). Supplemental 5-ton tractor trucks
trol of circuits when an extensive tropo system is are required for displacement of heavy organic
installed by the company or to complement the equipment. The company is air transportable
technical control facilities of signal units to with C-130-type aircraft.
which the tropo company is assigned or attached.
These control facilities include a company techni- 14-7. Tactical Airlift Operations
cal control center consisting of a patching central
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TOE Level 3. When the heavy tropo com- drop combat elements (combat support) and to
pany is at TOE strength level 3 its communica- provide Army elements with sustained logistical
tions capabilities are reduced by the deletion of support (combat service support).
one communications link (two tropo terminals). b. Complete details governing joint Army-Air-
The associated PATCENT facility is retained for force doctrine for tactical air-lift operations are
backup and for additional interface capability. contained in FM 100-27.
14-5. Limitations 14-8. Defense Capability
a. Installation of heavy tropo sites may require The heavy tropo company can engage in effective
geodetic survey for topography, exact location, coordinated defense of the company area and resoil
condition, terrain and distances between ter- mote installations. If such activity is sustained,
minals, true bearings, and angle to the horizon. however, assistance may be required to prevent
Engineer support may also be required for con- curtailment of the mission capabilities of the
struction of concrete foundations and hard-stands company.
14-2